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Netscape's Final Resting Place

It seems like there's been a fair amount of hullabaloo over the death of the Netscape browser, but you'll have to forgive me for giving it one last public airing here on the blog - it was my browser of choice for a number of my formative years (once I graduated from Mosaic, that is).

Today, on the Netscape blog, they announced the final resting place for the browser: archive.netscape.com. At the root of the site, they announce that they are officially endorsing Thunderbird, Firefox and Flock as the natural successors.

For hopeless browser romantics like me, they even provide an open thread on the History page for open discussion about, presumably, your favorite Netscape memories ("I love that one time when I saw my first <blink> tag. That was awesome.").

And finally, for the folks that don't want the past to die, but also want the browser to work reasonably well, there is the add-ons department, in which you can download plug-ins for modern browsers to replicate the functionality for Netscape.

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